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Sister Sue
The mysterious rider Black Bartlemy's treasure Martin Conisby's vengeance The valley of silent mẹn
Juvenile
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Steve and the steam engine S
Abbott Gregg Seaman Quirk Freeman Bassett
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Diamond rock S Little lead soldier S Adventures of Odysseus S
Three base Benson S Italian twins S Prince and Rover S Brown Wolf S Young Pilgrims S
Secret of every day things S
Story of johnny cake S
Black buccaneer S
Sandman S Airplane S Tell it again stories S
Burgess animal book S
Heroines of history S
Boy scout book
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Kenneth S England in America S
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS
OF THE
Town of Eastham
FOR THE YEAR
1921
OF EAS
TOWN
INC
MAUSET 1620
1651.
HYANNIS, MASS. F. B. & F. P. GOSS, PUBLISHERS and PRINTERS The "Patriot" Press 1922
Organization for 1921
Albion F. Rich, chairman Mrs. F. F. Dill, Secretary Mrs. Wm. F. Knowles
Term expires 1922 Term expires 1923 Term expires 1924
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT
(Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham) Loring G. Williams-Residence Harwich
Janitor
Frank Ellison
Attendance Officer
John Smart
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. Russell B. Sprague
SCHOOL NURSE
Miss Agnes M. Raymond
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PUPILS ATTENDING ORLEANS HIGH SCHOOL
December, 1921
Seniors
Sadie Chase Minnie Gill
Lewis Collins Abbott Knowles
Evelyn Mayo
Juniors
Della Knowles Carl Gross Malcolm Steele
Sophomores
Alvah Knowles
Lucy Knowles Lillian Morrison Leila Rogers
Oliver Knowles Rowena Moore Alice Rich Howard Walker
Freshmen
Herbert Forrest Lloyd Mayo Bernard Nickerson
Everett Gross Herbert Moore Charles Wilcox
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1922
Winter term: January 3d to March 24th-12 weeks. Spring term : April 10th to June 9th-9 weeks. Fall term: September 5th to December 15th-15 weeks. Winter term, 1923, begins January 2d.
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Financial Statement
AVAILABLE
General Town appropriation
$9,632 50
Dog fund
53 91
Medical attendance
87 52
$9,773 93
EXPENDITURES
Committee's salary
$100 00
Other expenses of Committee
25 39
Salary of Superintendent
375 00
Other expenses of Superintendent
18 32
Attendance Officer's salary
10 00
Supervisor of Music and Drawing salary
133 00
'Teachers' salariés
2,396 66
Books
38 97
Supplies
164 69
Janitor's salary
324 00
Fuel
127 05
Miscellaneous expenses of operation
21 00
Repairs and incidentals
170 19
Health
87 52
Transportation, High
.1,456 00
Elementary
996 75
Tuitions at Orleans High
2,812 00
Sundries, Insurance
35 00
9,291 54
Balance unexpended
$482 39
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Net cost to town
$5,119 99
Refunds received on account of schools
4,171 55
Total
$9,291 54
ESTIMATES FOR 1922
Committee's salary
$100 00
Other expenses of Committee
25 00
Salary of Superintendent
390 00
Other expenses of Superintendent
25 00
Attendance Officer's salary
10 00
Supervisor of Music and Drawing
150 00
Teachers' salary
2,300 00
Books and supplies
200 00
Janitor's wages
324 00
Janitor's extra labor
65 00
Fuel
175 00
Miscellaneous
50 00
General repairs
25 00
Grounds
50 00
Household Arts
25 00
Manual Training
25 00
Transportation, High
1,600 00
Transportation, Elementary
864 00
Tuitions, Orleans High
2,640 00
Insurance
35 00
Painting school building
150 00
Remodeling toilets
400 00
$9,628 00
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Estimated income for 1922:
Mass. School fund
$130 00
Rebate on Superintendent's salary 236 00
High School tuitions
2,000 00
High School transportation
1,600 00
General School fund, Primary and Intermediate
420 00
City Boston tuitions, 1922
500 00
1921 due
315 00
5,201 00
Estimated net cost to town $4,427 00
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee :
I herewith submit my fourteenth annual report.
The management and the administration of the schools have been carried on for another year successfully. The work of the schools while much the same year after year yet matters of interest and changes of importance arise in each and every succeeding year.
The amount of the appropriation for the year just passed has been sufficient to carry on the work and to meet ex- penses which have seemed necessary to the Committee ; $482.39 balance is being returned to the Town Treasurer.
Mr. Saunders, State Inspector of Buildings, inspected school buildings and toilets and has made a demand upon the Committee to remodel and re-arrange the present toilets. The Committee met at two different times for consideration of the matter, first with Dr. R. B. Sprague, School Physician, and later with Mr. Saunders. Various plans were con- sidered for remedying the conditions, one of which was to place before the town the proposition of excavating under the Manual Training room and install heat and flush toilets and ventilating system thus making the building and its equipment practically modern. This would involve also re-arrangement of the lighting of the Primary and Inter- mediate rooms.
As a result of this consideration Mr. Waddell of the
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State Board of Statistics was consulted. A statement from him was to the effect that such work would be considered as new work and increasing the floor space and thus give the town the privilege of borrowing money for the purpose and paying over a term of years.
This plan would be a very desirable one if the town should feel that it could adopt it at this time.
The toilets must be remodelled anyway and an esti- mated expenditure of four or five hundred dollars will be required for that alone, or about one-fourth of the cost of the larger plan. It would seem to be economy to put the money into a permanent and up-to-date proposition than into a temporary and unsatisfactory proposition.
Appropriation must be had for the toilets and should be had for painting.
There are twenty-two pupils enrolled in the Orleans High school. This year the cost for High School pupils for tui- tion and transportation will be approximately $4250, the great amount of which is reimbursed by the State. Orleans High school affords excellent advantages to all pupils at- tending. A wider range of courses is offered than is usual in the small rural High school, and this coupled with a larger teaching force, departmental teaching and a Junior and Senior High organization greatly enhance the value of secondary education to Eastham pupils.
The Elementary children are being taught in two rooms by two teachers this year as last, altho the enrollment has somewhat increased, a fine class of eleven having entered the first grade.
Mr. Nickerson resigned his position and accepted a re- sponsible principalship in Andover. Mr. Forrest C. Hamb- lin of Marstons Mills, a graduate of Hyannis Normal school, has been engaged to fill the vacancy.
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By vote of the town in the last town meeting the Federal Government Health proposition for Barnstable County as presented by Dr. Milliken, was accepted and Dr. R. B. Sprague was appointed School Physician, while he is at the same time executive officer of the local board of health.
We are impressed favorably up to this time with the work of Dr. Sprague and the prospects are that a very thorough organization of the public health will result. Dr. Sprague's report follows this report.
A State law enacted last spring requires all towns with a million dollar valuation or over and all other towns, un- less exemption is granted by the Commissioner of Educa- tion, to engage the services of a nurse for the schools. Eastham has not received exemption and the Committee has complied with the provisions of the law and appointed Miss' Agnes M. Raymond as school nurse. Miss Raymond has been secured by Dr. Sprague for work in the County, her salary having been pledged by the Red Cross for this pres- ent school year. Eastham for the present at least has her services without cost.
Reports of the School Physician, Supervisor of Music and Drawing, tables and statistics accompany this report.
Respectfully submitted,
LORING G. WILLIAMS,
Superintendent of Schools
January 12, 1922.
Report of Supervisor of Music
Superintendent L. G. Williams,
Harwich, Mass.
Dear Sir: Starting last year in January was somewhat of a handicap. I found, however, that the teachers were interested in the music and had followed the programs of past years. So for the remainder of the year we hurriedly reviewed and covered the year's work enough to enable the grades to begin their new work this year.
This year by making a slight change in the division of classes the children are better able to comprehend the music.
In comparing the work with last year I find the children doing in November the work they started last year in January. We hope to more thoroughly cover the year's work and do more advanced work in the Grammar grades. .
Respectfully submitted,
LAURA E, HASKINS,
Supervisor of Music
Report of Supervisor of Drawing
Superintendent L. G. Williams,
Harwich, Mass.
Dear Sir: The drawing of last year followed a brief outline to arouse, most of all, the interest of the pupils, at the same time giving a general idea of proportion, perspec- tive and the use of color.
In enlarging on last year's work, I have started a course of Applied Art which enables the pupils to use their knowl- edge obtained in design, handicrafts and the more general uses of vocational art.
In the higher grades originality is encouraged and some very interesting work has been done.
Respectfully submitted,
LAURA E. HASKINS,
Supervisor of Drawing
81 Report of School Physician
Mr. Loring G. Williams,
Supt. of Schools, Eastham, Mass.
My dear Sir :
The Cape Cod Health Bureau began active work about the middle of June 1921, hence our first annual report is annual in name only. The fiscal year of the Bureau does not coin- cide with that of the towns in which we work, and be- cause of the government subsidy cannot be changed at pres- ent. This does not mean that the towns will receive any less work for their appropriation. The services of the Bureau are paid in full to June 1922.
The first three and a half months of the school year, with the many holidays and emergency calls, has not sufficed to complete the survey of the twenty-one hundred school children under our supervision.
Eastham has been fortunate in having had no outbreak of contagious diseases during the fall term. I feel inclined to compliment the parents of the town in that their children show a much better state of nutrition, cleanliness, and gen- eral care than do several other towns in our district. How- ever, we are not justified in resting upon our laurels at this point, as there are still many minor defects that need at- tention.
Very extensive surveys have established certain normal standards by which the nutrition of children can be meas- ured. It is found that among school children as a whole E-6
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twenty percent are below the normal. In this twenty per- cent are those who are below in their studies, those who are most liable to contract the contagious diseases of childhood and who lay the foundation for adult tuberculosis, Bright's disease, heart trouble, and other less serious but trouble- some and efficiency reducing diseases. In our study of the Eastham children twenty-six and one-half percent are be- low the normal nutritional standard, and fall into the class just mentioned. With the aid of the Red Cross nurse, supplied by the Cape Cod Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the financial assistance of the Public Health Association of Barnstable County we shall be able to start the Dr. William R. P. Emerson type of nutritional classes during the month of January. As you are no doubt aware this work requires special training, and I can heartily recommend Miss Agnes M. Raymond of the Red Cross as competent to carry it on. This work can only be a success, however, with the closest cooperation on the part of parents, teachers, school nurse and family phy- sician. Funds being available for only five classes at the present time, there will be but one in each of five towns. Each will consist of twenty children most needing the work, or whose parents are most willing to cooperate.
While the children of the South are handicapped by hookworm, malaria, and typhoid fever, the boys and girls of New England are burdened by the tradition that "what was good enough for their grandfathers is good enough for them." We must face the fact that the world our boys and girls find to make a living in is as different from that of their grandfathers' time as Tibet is different from New York. We cannot forget that while the country at large showed that thirty percent of the men coming up for the draft were defective physically, Cape Cod must live under the stigma of having forty-seven percent defective.
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The solution of this problem is not dependent upon any one person or group of persons but demands the coopera- tion of all who are interested in the education and welfare of our children.
We seldom stop to consider that a child's time in school has a money value, but loss of time on account of sickness, failure to grasp the work because of physical handicaps, subsequent necessity of repeating the grades, doctor's and nurses' fees, loss of teaching time, etc., tax us untold thou- sands during every generation. To stop this loss means thought, effort, and above all things cooperation.
It has been suggested that the good nutrition and hygienic condition of the children of Eastham is in some part at- tributable to the excellent work of Miss Rose and the Farm Bureau during the past year. With the facilities available it is to be regretted that some form of hot lunches are not
w being served at the consolidated school. Schools where luncheons are now being served can readily see the improve- ment in both the morale and ability to study appearing in the pupils receiving these lunches.
The following detailed report of my preliminary findings will show that there is ample room for improvement. To be sure many of these conditions are at present only the weak link in an otherwise strong chain, but are worthy of immediate attention.
Pupils examined 60
Symptoms of eye strain
17
Abnormal ears 31
Need of immediate dental care 38
Abnormal noses 9
Abnormal throats
51
Abnormal hearts
2
Enlarged cervical glands 29
84
Undernourished
16
Sundries
7
Vaccinated Unvaccinated
29
31
Marked adenoid obstruction
5
Respectfully submitted,
R. B. SPRAGUE, M.D.
Health Officer and Medical School Inspector Field Agent U. S. Public Health Service
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SCHOOL CENSUS APRIL 1, 1921
Boys Girls T't'ls
Children in town between 5 and 7 years 8 6 14
Children in town between 7 and 14 years
23
27 50
Children in town between 14 and 16 years 8
10 18
Illiterates between 16 and 21 years
none reported
Total
39 43 82
Actual number enrolled Dec. 1921, Elementary 61
Actual number enrolled, Dec. 1921, High 22
ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE DATA FOR
YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1921
Pupils enrolled
62
Pupils in High School at Orleans
26
Non-resident pupils
2
Aggregate attendance
9,024
'Average attendance
54
Average membership
58
Number of days schools were actually in session
168
Percentage of attendance 93.1
CORPS OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1922
Name
School
Preparation
When
Appointed
Years'
Experience
Prior to
Sept. 1921
Yearly
Salary
Home Address
Forest C Hamblin
Grammar
Aug. 1921
None
$1000
Florence W. Keith
Primary
July 1906
18 years
1200
Marstons Mills, Mass Keith Place, Bridgewater, Mass.
Laura E. Haskins
Music and Drawing
Dec. 1920
3 years
1400
Assonet, Mass.
Hyannis Normal Bridgewater Normal Extension Courses ( North Adams Normal Lasell Summer Courses .
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PUPILS CLASSIFIED BY GRADES DECEMBER, 1921
School
Grade
Boys
Girls
Totals
Grammar
VIII
3
6
9
VII
3
5
8
VI
5
2
7
V
2
1
3
Primary
IV
5
7
12
III
3
2
5
II
3
3
6
I
6
5
11
Totals
30
31
61
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Graduating Exercises
EASTHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Friday Evening, June 10, 1921
PROGRAM
March Miss Frances Sullivan Invocation Rev. H. L. Arnold School
Music, "The Southland"
Salutatory
Everett W. Gross
'Pageant, "How Our Country Grew"
School
Music, "Dragon Flies"
Chorus
Play, "The Last Rehearsal"
Class of 1921
Music, "Rowing, Not Drifting"
Valedictory
School Charles S. Wilcox
Presentation of Diplomas
Supt. L. G. Williams Rev. H. L. Arnold
Benediction
Class of 1921
President-Muriel Chittenden Penniman Vice President-Charles Stanley Wilcox Secretary-Lloyd Albert Mayo Treasurer-Herbert Lester Forrest Everett Wellington Gross Herbert Lecount Moore
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Class Colors Blue and Gold Class Motto Work and Win Class Flower Daisy®
REPORT OF THE CAPE COD HEALTH BUREAU
JUNE 1, 1921-JANUARY 1, 1922
There are many persons in the town of Eastham, who are as yet unfamiliar with what the Cape Cod Health Bu- reau is doing for them. Briefly, it is an alliance of Cape Cod Towns with the United States Government for the purpose of improving health conditions.
Unsanitary conditions, directly or indirectly, affect our business; for example, continued sewage contamination of shell-fish beds will shut our product out of city markets, where the Boards of Health are unusually active this year. Continued production of unclean milk will bring in outside products and eventually discourage local dairymen. Wells contaminated by sewage or drainage will interfere with summer rentals and boarders. All of these conditions have occurred during the past six months, and have been met in a manner satisfactory to all.
The protection of the life and health of our own children and also of our summer residents is of paramount import- ance. We cannot forget that the first draft found thirty percent of the young men from the country at large were physically defective. This same draft found Cape Cod
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with forty-seven percent defective. Our annual loss in life from diseases dangerous to the public health in Barnstable County, when measured in money value, is approximately $150,000. This figure allows nothing for the expenses in- curred during the illness resulting in death.
The period already covered has hardly sufficed to ac- quaint us with the territory and conditions. Gradually the danger points are being found and means planned to eradi- cate them. So many people are now realizing that con- ditions which have long been tolerated may now be rem- edied that we find it hard to meet the demand with the present force and funds.
It is hoped that every citizen of the town will show his interest in the welfare of his family and community in call- ing to our attention any and all unsanitary conditions com- ing to his or her notice.
The following are the completed activities to date in the town of Eastham:
Dairy Inspections 124
Milk analyzed 19
Samples below standard
1
Sanitary Inspections 4
Respectfully submitted,
R. B. SPRAGUE, M.D.,
Agent Board of Health Town of Eastham Field Agent U. S. Public Health Service
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT, 1922
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable, ss.
To Harvey T. Moore, Constable of the Town of Eastham, in said County, Greeting.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Eastham, on Monday, February 6, 1922, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz :
Art. 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
Art. 2. To hear the reports of the Selectmen and all reports and committees and act thereon.
Art. 3. Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this town?
Art. 4. To choose all necessary Town officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. To fix the rate for the collection of taxes as- sessed for the year 1922.
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the Public Library and make an appropriation for the same.
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Art. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be neces- sary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year and make appropriations for the same.
Art. 8. To see in what manner the Town will dispose of its refunded dog tax and act thereon.
Art. 9. To see in what manner the Town will support its poor the ensuing year.
Art. 10. To see in what manner the Town will repair its roads and bridges the ensuing year and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will give the Collector of Taxes the same power which the Treasurer has when Col- lector of Taxes.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the municipal year beginning January 1, 1922 to an amount not to exceed $6,000.00.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for, and to elect a director to the Cape Cod Farm Bureau as authorized by Sect. 41 and 45, Chap. 128, pages 1107 and 1108, Mass. Gen. Laws.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate for suppressing the Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the Town will ap- propriate towards the repairs and maintenance of Town roads or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 16. To see what action the Town will take regard- ing the wages for laborers and teams on Town work for the ensuing year or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote.to make an appro- priation for the observance of Memorial Day.
Art. 18. To see what action the Town will take in re- gards to the Herring Brook or do or act anything thereon.
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Art. 19. To see what action the Town will take in erect- ing a suitable memorial for the Town's World War Veterans and select a site appropriate for the same. (By request.)
Art. 20. To see if the Town will accept the act that amends Chap. 41 of the General Laws, 1921; that the asses- sors may appoint assistant assessors, or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 21. To see what action the Town will take in elect- ing two Fish Constables for the ensuing year or do or act anything thereon. (By request.)
Art. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to grade and oil the road from the store of S. F. Brackett, easterly to the state road or do or act anything thereon, (By request.)
Art. 23. To see if the Town of Eastham will build a road to run from the Railroad Station to the southerly cliffs of the West Shore and vote and act upon the same. (By request.)
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to accept the road as laid out from the Town road (near the Rockland Cot- tage) running in a general southerly direction through the property of Mary Dyke and Ida A. Lawton to the town road on the northeast side of the Great Meadow as shown in Plan No. 1.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue ? section of the Town road beginning near the house of Pool following the edge of the Herring Pond to the Tow !! road near Judge Lawton's barn, as shown on plan or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to lay out a road beginning at the junction of the Addie Nickerson and Frank Ellison roads, running in a general westerly direc. tion through the land of Richard F. Smith and Dwight Blaney to the Town road near the house of Philip Smith, as the trespass road now runs, and appropriate a sum of
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money to grade and survey the same or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the Town road running from the Addie Nickerson road west- erly, on the north side of the Richard Smith property to the Town road near the Luther Smith asparagus bed.
Art. 28. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the Town road running between the property of D. W. Spar- row and Warren Mayo beginning near the property of San- born, running generally northerly to the Town road lead- ing past Charles W. Chase's property to the Great Rock.
Art. 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $215.00 for the purpose of continuing the services of the Cape Cod Health Bureau, said sum to be placed in the hands of the Town Treasurer subject to the order of the Board of Health and School Committee acting conjointly, which order shall be signed by the chair- man of each board, or take any action thereon.
Art. 30. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of cutting out the wild growth and cleaning up the old burial ground situated on the State Highway between the homes of Charles A. Rogers and Freeman E. Knowles or do or act anything thereon.
Polls will open at 10 o'clock A. M.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting, as aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Eastham this twenty-third day of January, 1922.
ARTHUR W. PARNELL, WILLIAM B. HIGGINS, DANIEL W. SPARROW,
Selectmen of Eastham
REPORTS OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS OF THE
Town of Eastham
FOR THE YEAR
1922
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING HELD IN TOWN HALL FEBRUARY 5, 1923
OF
EAS
TOWN
AUSET 1GZD
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NEW BEDFORD, MASS. GEO. H. REYNOLDS, PUBLISHER AND PRINTER 1923
REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS OF THE
Town of Eastham
FOR THE YEAR
1922
OF EAS
TOWN
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